[ExI] Beating on the closed door of SCIENCE

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Sep 8 17:00:10 UTC 2008


At 08:49 PM 9/7/2008 +0200, Sondre wrote:

>Here is a quick (non-serious) thought: if they actually change the randomly
>generated photo after the fact that they had received the signal, what would
>happen?

How can you *change* a randomly-generated stimulus? Whatever turns 
out to be the stimulus is the target. You could terminate the 
experiment (improperly) after seeing a spike, but that unexpected 
termination might itself be the cause of the spike. Seems to me.





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